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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Electrical eyeballs controlling our gadgets
Read the full story Audio | Household | R&D 04:54 PM Mark Hiratsuka • PermalinkComments

The field of disability aids has seen many devices controlled by computers that visually track the eye movements of paralysed people, but none that reads the electricity given off by swiveling eyeballs.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Sexing-up obscures really useful stuff in favour of cheap headlines
Read the full story R&D 03:09 AM Mark Hiratsuka • PermalinkComments

Call us cynical, but it’s a sad world when a researcher has to sex up his work by linking it to ‘cool’ things like iPods before it gets any press attention.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Researchers use tooth power to control gadgets
Read the full story Household | R&D 01:06 AM Mark Hiratsuka • PermalinkComments

Compulsive tooth grinders might want to look away now if they don’t wish to be reminded of their headache-inducing torment, for Osaka University in Japan has come up with a human-machine interface that is controlled by grinding the molars together.



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